UK to provide assistance to Bangladesh regarding climate change

The United Kingdom will provide necessary assistance to Bangladesh in the areas of climate change mitigation, said British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson on Wednesday.

The British envoy said this during a meeting with Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md. Shahab Uddin at the ministry.

Referring to Bangladesh as a very close ally of Britain, Dickson said that the cooperation between Britain and Bangladesh would continue at an increasing pace.

Assistance would also be provided in overall waste management including single use waste and medical waste, environmental conservation, renewable energy use, biodiversity conservation and technical and research, he said.

Minister Shahab Uddin told the envoy that Bangladesh is playing a significant role in the international arena on climate change as the president of the Climate Vulnerability Forum and Vulnerable-20.

He said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced the Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan for the overall prosperity of Bangladesh. The environment minister said Bangladesh would finalize the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and submit it to the UNFCC before August 31.

The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) was also being finalized in consultation with the concerned stakeholders, he said.

Wishing success to the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in UK’s Glasgow in November the minister also sought the cooperation of Britain in all the areas related to climate change.